06-MAR-A-4
THE ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR OUR ROYAL RECEPTION IN RWANDA
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: Jupa Kaberuka
Date: 3/3/2006 8:27:07 AM
Subject: Re: What to expect while in Rwanda
Dear Rev. Jupa:
Our team is ready and eager to meet with you! We have just had our official launch from the "Packing Party" and orientation to Rwanda and its customs, medical, cultural and linguistic settings, and have gone over the details of our trip‑‑the single most pressing of which is for the team to stay flexible and cheerfully accept the inevitability of changes in the agenda along the way!
We are packing a very large quantity of supplies and medicines, which we will not only be using, but hope to instruct members of your own local health care team along with our own on‑going health care education process, so that all of the materials and medicines we leave behind will be accompanied in each site by the careful instructions in their appropriate usage. We hope to integrate our team and yours in the medical practice of our screening clinics, but also in the educational activities which are planned in daily presentations.
I am packing my own personal laptop and along with us comes a computer linkage projector which we will leave with you after using it to teach throughout our stay. I even have a packet of flash cards and instructions in basic English language as pertains to health care and education.
I have secured a doubled order of MAP (Medical Assistance Programs International) packs, and will have eight boxes of high value medicines taped together in pairs at the limit of airline transportation weight of less than sixty pounds. In addition, we have twice that number of suitcases, many of them donated from multiple churches and other private donor sources, filled with the medical/surgical kits with which to equip several clinics, even including some devices like small laboratory centrifuges and some additional basic versatile supplies not dependent upon electricity continuum. Each of the team members will have no more than one personal item of checked baggage, with all the rest of our through‑checked luggage being medical clinic supplies and medicines for a one‑way passage to Rwanda. I have secured bills of lading as to the contents and certificates of donation for free distribution under licensed physician to the people of Rwanda for humanitarian purposes only and will carry additional copies of such certificates with me for your use.
We will be happy to meet with whatever officials you believe are appropriate to the ongoing clinical and educational work and sustainable efforts of the mission. I am circulating your greetings accompanying this letter to our team so that they might be prepared for these introductions on whatever timetable you will be in the best position to determine. We are also accompanied by several photographers of our own and videography teams who will be covering the events,(see below) particularly the visit to the Millennium Village Project at Mayange, but also each of the clinics and sites where we will be working.
I know that it is always challenging, whether in African logistics or elsewhere, for organizational leadership to do advance planning in an effort not previously carried out in each of these sites, but we hope to minimize the "down time" of administrative details and maximize the interaction with the patients and staff which we have come to do, and we thank you for all your advance planning and help. In my prior emailed messages, you have a complete description of our team of eighteen persons accompanying me from our side, and the agenda of our movements from here to our arrival. You will know best the persons, places and plans for the interval between the scheduled arrival and departure, and our entire team is already oriented to a flexible improvisation and a positive forthcoming approach to do whatever we can to support your efforts in institutionalizing a successful and continuing health care program within the overall context of the humanitarian mission.
We accept your plans and concur in your invitation to be back in Kigali for the important March 15 inauguration of the new school and the meetings with whatever ministry officials you will arrange for us, and we will be prepared to do so.
I speak for the whole team‑‑veterans of such missions and novices alike‑‑who had asked me at our pre‑launch reception to relay to you the contagious enthusiasm and exhilaration which has swept through this highly select team (who are the winners from among over twice our numbers of "wannabe" applicants whom I have counseled to stand by for future opportunities for return visits!) From the moment of their applications to join us and now our "Rwanda Packing Party and Trip Orientation Briefing" to the point when we greet you in Kigali, we can't wait to be at work with you in your laudable efforts on behalf of the Rwandan people!
We will see you soon!
Yours truly,
Glenn W. Geelhoed
>>> Jupa Kaberuka <jupakab@yahoo.fr> 3/2/2006 11:26 AM >>>
Greetings to all of you as the days are approaching
for you to be with us in Rwanda.
We are so excited to receive you and to be with you in
this few days with much blessings.
I would like to inform you the important event which
will happen when you will be here.
On March 15, we will have the official inauguration of
Bishop Forrest Stith School of Kigali, and we will
have some Official Ministers from the Government, the
Chief Commandant of Rwanda Army and many other
dignitaries. This is confirmed and One of you will
have to say a word.
The Official Minister of Health would like to welcome
you, we will determine when you will be here now He is
traveling but maybe he will be back before you return
in USA.
There is many dignitaries who would like to welcome
you, but your time is very short.
I don`t know exactly how and when, but the President
of our Country would like to see you too. This is not
yet official but I got this information from one of
His protocol officer.
We will wait and see, read to respond to His
invitation in an time.
Thank you very much for all you are doing in your
preparation and God bless you so much.
Rev. Jupa
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Hi Rev. Jupa, Stephen, and Dr. Geelhoed
The in‑country contact for the Rwanda Millennium Villages Project is Ranu
Dhillon +250‑08632003. He will arrange their end of our team visit to the
Millennium Village in Mayange.
Rev. Jupa has agreed to transport the team to the Millennium Village when
the date has been identified. I have given his name to Ranu Dhillon to
coordinate the drive.
Stephen Katz will set up the date from our end for the photographing of the
village. I have given his name to Ranu Dhillon as the contact for our team
and he is waiting for the call to set up what you want. The best dates at
this time seem to be March 10 or 11 because the videographers also need to
go to the Village to film (they arrive in Kigali on the 8th and leave on the
12th.) Background info on the Millennium Village Project
http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about
Dr. Geelhoed will arrange (should be the same day and time) for the meetings
with the Village officials to discuss potential future medical mission
opportunities for PFP.
Susan Carroll Palmer, CAE
757.625.7569, ext. 314
‑‑‑‑‑Original Message‑‑‑‑‑
From: rxd166 [mailto:Ranvir.Dhillon@jefferson.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:42 AM
To: Susan Palmer
Subject: Rwanda Millennium Villages Project ‑‑ Ranu Dhillon +250‑08632003
Dear Susan,
Apologies for the difficulty in reaching my phone ‑ my number is now
+250‑08306723. We are eagerly looking forward to meeting with the team when
they arrive in Rwanda. Once a date is confirmed, we can make arrangements
to have the team meet with the Nyamata district health officials and
physicians as well as discuss training needs and possibilities. Feel free
to pass my contact onto Mr. Katz and Rev. Jupa and I will also contact them
to make plans. If the team requires any other assistance of any kind ‑
logistical or otherwise ‑
while in Rwanda, they should not hesitate to contact me. Thank you and we
look forward to meeting your team!!
Ranu Dhillon
Quoting Susan Palmer <spalmer@physiciansforpeace.org>:
| Hi Ranu,
Physicians for Peace would like to solidify arrangements with you for our
medical team in Kigali to visit you and see the Rwanda Millennium Village
Project. We will be bringing a photo‑journalist and 2 videographers to
document, who will be in Kigali March 8‑12, in addition to our medical team.
We would like to make sure that they will be able to photograph freely
(please confirm) and that the team leader Dr. Geelhoed of the medical team
can meet with the Nyamata District medical director and district hospital
head physician to discuss potential opportunities for Physicians for Peace
to work with the Rwanda Millennium Village Project to provide supplemental
training for physicians and nurses as well as potentially providing medical
assistance as needed. I can't give you an exact day of the visit because it
all depends on how long the mission takes in Kigali. My best guess would be
the 10th or 11th.
While in Kigali the medical team will be staying at the Castle Hotel. To
make arrangements you can contact our photographer Stephen Katz who will be
staying at the Castle Hotel. In addition, Rev. Jupa (information below) is
making our in‑country logistical arrangements.
Reverend Kaberuka Jupa
B. P. 3706 Kigali, Rwanda
Cell 011.250.08306369
Tel 011.250.583004
E‑mail jupakab@yahoo.fr
Please call me or e‑mail me and let me know if this works for you. Thank
you. Susan
Susan Carroll Palmer, CAE
International Medical Programs
<mailto:spalmer@physiciansforpeace.org> spalmer@physiciansforpeace.org
PHYSICIANS for PEACE
229 West Bute Street, Suite 200 | Norfolk, VA 23510
P 757.625.7569 x 314 | F 757.625.7680
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BUILDING PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIPS THROUGH MEDICINE
‑‑‑‑‑Original Message‑‑‑‑‑
From: rxd166 [mailto:Ranvir.Dhillon@jefferson.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:05 AM
To: rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org
Cc: jnr4@columbia.edu; Sonia Sachs
Subject: RE: Upcoming Physicians for Peace trips
Dr. Sconyers,
I am a medical/health intern with the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda
and would love to meet with Dr. Geelhoed and his team when they come to
Kigali.
Our village is located in Nyamata District not too far from Kigali and the
district hospital, as is the case throughout Rwanda, could greatly benefit
from supplemental training for physicians and nurses. If you think the PFP
team will have time to come out to Nyamata this trip, I can arrange plans
with the Nyamata District medical director and district hospital head
physician.
Ranu Dhillon
Rwanda Millennium Villages Project
+250‑08632003
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